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mrseddie

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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #15 on: 09:24:09, 27/02/14 »
Hi Mandy as Cupcake suggested keep a look out for a memorial notice on 2nd March.
All the best dear.

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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #16 on: 10:55:51, 02/03/14 »
Hiya Mandy I am an ex Gorton Lad  and my piece of advise for what it is worth  is to go on the Gorton web page  of Face book is called Manchester 18 of all places , then there is another site called Knowhere type in Gorton Message board , failing that there is Manmates site run by a fella who lives in Gorton   I'm sure someone went to school with them or even worked with them at some time   They are all worth trying 
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Mandy

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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #17 on: 22:19:12, 02/03/14 »
Thank you Bodzy, I have log a notice on Knowhere site and like Manmates on fb.

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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #18 on: 22:23:18, 02/03/14 »
Hi Cupcake


I checked MEN to 2nd March for a memorial notice but no luck.  Thank you for the suggestion

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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #19 on: 14:23:42, 03/03/14 »
Ah well, worth a try.....Have you tried to get a copy of the original notice from 2005?  If the MEN can't oblige, then there's probably a library somewhere with back editions of the paper? 
It's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice.

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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #20 on: 14:31:16, 03/03/14 »
Mandy, I came across something that might be useful for you. I've sent you a PM.
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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #21 on: 22:06:15, 10/03/14 »
I have found Deborah's family, a BIG thank you everyone. xx
Hopefully I will come home to M/C and visit her mum.


I am still looking for Mark. Maybe Debis family will know where he is.

mrseddie

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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #22 on: 12:00:19, 11/03/14 »
Fantastic news, keep us posted....

mrseddie  :)

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« Reply #23 on: 19:55:58, 11/03/14 »
How splendid for you. I am so pleased.  Fingers crossed they have a lead on Mark.  Do feel free to post any clues!   ;) 
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« Reply #24 on: 23:04:23, 10/02/16 »
Anyone remember going to Varna Street School Gortonl in the sixties? l remember the steam trains and walking along the canal at the side of the school to get home to Abbey Hey Lane.l was only about 7 years old. l used to play on the red wreck. Also the famous six weeks walks along Ashton Old Road where we wore long white dresses and flowers head bands if we were lucky to be in THE FIRST SIX!

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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #25 on: 10:21:15, 14/02/16 »
Lovely reply Mandy. All the best in your search.
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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #26 on: 12:48:59, 10/04/16 »
Anyone remember going to Varna Street School Gortonl in the sixties? l remember the steam trains and walking along the canal at the side of the school to get home to Abbey Hey Lane.l was only about 7 years old. l used to play on the red wreck. Also the famous six weeks walks along Ashton Old Road where we wore long white dresses and flowers head bands if we were lucky to be in THE FIRST SIX!


I didn't live in Gorton but in Hulme and then later Longsight and remember the Whit Week Walks - they were organised by the churches as 'Walks of Witness'. We were a family of 7 children and always had our annual new clothes for the Whit Walks.
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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #27 on: 12:52:32, 10/04/16 »
Hi
I am looking for 2 special old friends who I lost contact with in the mid 80's -  Deborah Slate and Mark Mckenner who I grow up with until I moved from Gorton to Wales.
We kept in contact with each other until around 1984.
I would dearly love to contact them again and catch up with all the lost years.
Please if you know them, tell them I miss them and ask them to contact me.


Thank you
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Re: Please help me to find 2 old friends
« Reply #28 on: 22:08:13, 17/11/16 »
hi, mandy  not sure if you'll get this as the last post was 2 years ago,
but there's a cemetery  in gorton and an undertakers on hyde rd I think it called taylors .
you are welcome to email me .and can let you have the address's.etc I do hope you find your friends family.
lot of luck littledorris
ps  I think these a gorton group on facebook